Day FORTY-EIGHT of Presidential recovery.
Today is International Women’s Day (Do they still define ‘woman’ the same way?). Originally to celebrate the women’s rights movement, giving focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women.
I prefer to celebrate it in my own way, honoring women of character and accomplishment. What women do you identify as earning that honor?
10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
14 She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
18 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Proverbs 31 is the final chapter of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It consists of two main sections: the first nine verses, where King Lemuel’s mother advises him on how a just king should reign, and the remaining verses, which detail the attributes of a good wife or ideal woman, also known as Eshet Ḥayil.34
The chapter is an acrostic poem, with each verse beginning with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It emphasizes the importance of a woman’s industriousness, business acumen, kindness, and wisdom, all of which are attributed to her “fear of the L ORD”.
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